From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 18:48:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE68D153FE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:48:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17330; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:46:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading - one more time please In-Reply-To: <19990702113233.23634@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > I have a growing collection of opinions on what is the best method of > upgrading from early in one branch of -STABLE to the next branch of > -STABLE, e.g. all at once with "make upgrade" or jump one "version" at > a time (not well defined for -STABLE), convert from -STABLE to -RELEASE > and then -STABLE again or not, do it all with sources or do an > "upgrade" installation of binaries then revert to make world, or throw > the disk away and start again. I've gathered quite an assortment of > conflicting ideas so far with no more than two people agreeing on any > of them. What's your favourite method? Your collection is due in part to people handing out data that is no longer pertinent due to changes/improvements in the process, and the fact that "best" is a relative term, depending on the user. My answer for what you should do depends on a few things. First, ever done a make world upgrade before? If not I would say don't start with this project. In all likelihood you would be much better off by backing up your important data, using the 3.whatever CD's you have to do a clean install (wipe disk(s), install from scratch) then restore your data. That way you don't have to worry about bogons from the 2.2 installation causing you mysterious problems in 3.x. Then once that is done, take a look at Nik's page on make world upgrades and take it from there. If you have done a make world or two and are comfortable with the process, depending on how old your system is I'd upgrade it to the most recent 2.2.8-Stable, then do the make upgrade. Actually, I'd recommend that you do this anyway just to be on the safe side. You should still back up your data though, since any upgrade process is potentially destructive. The details of the process will have to wait for this weekend though, I have two pages of notes on things to do before during and after, and I want to test my written procedure first on my last remaining 2.2.8 box before I publish it. Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message